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My superpowers: health, fitness, and sleep

Nithin Kamath · LinkedIn (Zerodha CEO) Free Beginner India

The founder who built Zerodha treats sleep and movement as the infrastructure that lets him recover from setbacks faster, not as a wellness bonus. He is blunt that sleep is the most underrated part of health and pushes back on hustle culture. His concrete levers match our advice exactly: sleep by 9pm, stand up every 45 minutes, and set a movement floor. After his stroke he learned this the hard way, which makes it the most honest founder-voice case for why the body is not optional. This is the Indian founder saying it plainly.

  • Sleep is the most underrated part of a founder's health, and hustle culture that valorizes overwork is wrong
  • A movement floor beats intensity: stand up every 45 minutes and set a simple daily activity goal
  • Good health is what lets you recover from setbacks faster, so it is performance infrastructure, not indulgence
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The question it answers

  1. How do I get my sleep, exercise, and body back on track when the startup has wrecked all three?

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